UPDATE: Power knocked out to more than 2,500 Ridge homes

About 2,500 Ridge Pacific Gas and Electric customers are out of power tonight as winds and rains continue roar through the North state.

According to the company's website, there are 12 outages in Paradise putting 2,488 customers in the dark. Earlier outages had put 296 customers in the dark, but crews were able to reduce that number 181 before the latest outages..

In Magalia, four outages have knocked out power to 100 customers. It had been as high as 1,355 customers..

There's no word on excatly on what areas are affected but a couple readers have told The Post who live near Paradise High School that they are out of power. There are no estimates of restoral time in any of the Ridge outages.